Isn’t rhubarb the funniest plant? Its leaves remind me of gym kit packed away in a bag, all crumpled so tightly, and then slowly unfurling. To pack leaves this big underground, you’d need to crinkle them up this much, I suppose.

This leaf looks like a hand sticking up out of the ground. It’s rather strange.

Many of my rhubarb plants are much further ahead of this one. But this is the most established as it was here when we arrived. I have no idea what variety it is, other than it was taken from a division of the previous owner’s mother’s rhubarb, so I call it Granny Rhubarb now.

I won’t be harvesting much from my other rhubarb plants this year as they need to settle down in the garden. So this Granny Rhubarb will be particularly useful as it will provide me with a hearty harvest of rhubarb stems to help me feed my addiction.

Here are some of my favourite rhubarb recipes:

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